Improving the efficiency of GaAs solar cells using a double semi-transparent carbon nanotubes thin layer

2019 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 20401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Nooreddin Jafari ◽  
Abbas Ghadimi ◽  
Saeed Rouhi

To investigate the efficiency of a single-junction solar cell that was performed using a numerical analysis method, the effect of creating several different surface-enhancer layer structures on the efficiency of the solar cell was performed. In this study, several carbon nanotube structures adapted to the solar cell structure of the gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrate were used. These elements have two important features of transparency and conductivity. Here, the effect of various parameters such as structure type, dimensions, number of layers, usable impurities and their arrangement on the solar cell efficiency was investigated. In this research, the layer added on the surface of a solar cell can be modeled on a heterogeneous carbon nanotube network. Finally, an optimized single-junction solar cell was obtained by examining the performance of the solar cell using the final carbon nanotube layers. This work resulted, the solar cell with a combination of a double-layer carbon nanotube enhancer by about 30% of efficiency, due to the ability to absorb more photons in one layer of the nanotubes, and better electrical transferability in the other layer of the nanotubes. In this solar cell, two different layers of carbon nanotube with a surface ratio of 10% and 90% of the total surface enhancer layer were used, with a cellular efficiency of about 1% improvement in performance compared with the previous one.

2017 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 201-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z.C. Su ◽  
S.J. Xu ◽  
R.X. Wang ◽  
J.Q. Ning ◽  
J.R. Dong ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 896 ◽  
pp. 455-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomy Abuzairi ◽  
Nji Raden Poespawati

We report for the first time a simple optimization of triple-junction solar cell nc-Si:H/a-Si:H/a-SiGe:H using computer modeling and Robust Design. Firstly we performed a computer modeling of solar cell by wxAMPS software. Subsequently, we investigated the parameters of the solar cell layers and the effect of the solar cell efficiency using Robust Design via Taguchi method, ANOVA and additive model. The results show that the a-Si:H middle absorber cell has the highest contribution of solar cell efficiency at 40.87% and the nc-Si:H n-back layer cell has the second highest contribution of solar cell efficiency at 31.15%. Moreover, the optimum condition for triple-junction solar cell is A2 B1 C2 D2 with solar cell efficiency at 15.73%. These results indicate that Robust Design succeeded predicting the best condition for optimizing triple-junction solar cell nc-Si:H/a-Si:H/a-SiGe:H.


2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joon-Suh Park ◽  
Jihoon Kyhm ◽  
Hyungduk Ko ◽  
Jin Dong Song ◽  
Eunkyeom Kim ◽  
...  

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